Ed Henry, the Senior White House correspondent for Fox News Channel, made some remarkable admissions tonight about Hillary Clinton in the wake of her appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
A former moderator of the CNN’s Inside Politics broadcast and a senior White House correspondent for the network, Henry left CNN to become the Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News in 2011.
He Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from the National Press Foundation in 2005; the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondent’s Association in 2008; and has received honors for breaking news coverage for CNN’s “America Votes 2004” as well as for his exclusive 2005 interview with Jeb Bush regarding the case of Terri Schiavo.
In short, Henry may work for Fox News, but has distinguished himself as a credible reporter in the past.
Speaking with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren about what the Clinton campaign was saying in the wake of her appearance before the select committee earlier in the day, Henry responded that: “They’re feeling good tonight. They feel like there’s been barely a glove, you know, on the secretary, that she has been pushing back very strong,” adding that “in terms of the narrative on Benghazi, there was no major new development that, sort of, rocked her side of the story that changes this in some way.”
He continued, recounting an earlier conversation he had with a “Republican operative,” stating:
And in fact, rather than just talking about the Clinton camp, I just got off the phone a few moments ago with a Republican operative working for one of the leading contenders. There’s, what, 15 or 16 of them? This is somebody in the upper tier, OK? And this person said “for the second straight big event,” and this is a Republican, “Hillary Clinton looked presidential and was in command.” And this person went on to say, this Republican, that it was a total wipe out for the Republicans on the committee. Now, maybe he’s exaggerating, but she did look presidential, she did look in command today, just like she did at that last debate. And so, what you have here is another big test for Hillary Clinton, and another big test that she appears to have passed. And so, you know, you’ve got the same week where Joe Biden doesn’t get in. Jim Webb, who wasn’t much of a threat but still was an alternative as a moderate Democrat, he gets out. The field is clearing for her. [emphasis added]
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